Near-field communications is becoming increasingly popular to make wireless payments. A number of handset vendors are implementing the technology in their devices so as to entice the users to buy them. The latest flagship smartphone from Samsung, Galaxy S III, also had it included. The question is, will S III’s chief rival, the next iPhone, will come equipped with it as well?

Samsung has been putting up a major push to make its Galaxy S III handset a success. With the hardware and features packed in this flagship Samsung smartphone, its no surprise that it is witnessing really good sales. But the big question is, will it be able to stand competition from its main rival, the iPhone? It seems that Samsung fairly hopes so.

Samsung has long been competing Apple to grab hold of the top share of the smartphone market. Samsung already was able to beat Nokia to become the largest handset vendor globally this quarter. And now, although Apple has shown impressive growth, Samsung has improved lot more and is finally able to grab the top spot in the smartphone market in terms of market share.

DigiTimes nearly always have got something to report about Apple products. A lot of times, it is not true but it sure is always interesting. Now, the publication is reporting that Apple may use ‘in-cell’ touch panels in the next-generation iPhone. DigiTimes claims that this has been divulged by a source in Apple’s supply chain.

Apple has been very secretive, as always, about its upcoming iPhone. We know nearly nothing for sure. There are speculations of a different form factor, advanced hardware, software upgrade and what not; and yet Apple folks watch all this with amusement and continue with their work. Now, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has claimed that Apple will launch the next iPhone in October.

There’s no end to human imagination and that is precisely why most of the rumors are so creative. While we get near the release of a next-generation iPhone, rumor has it that Apple will be using liquid metal in the device rather than the usual glass and material stuff. Liquid metal is said to be far more durable than the earlier material used for iPhone.

iPhone has been a roaring success in US where millions of users are tooling iPhone devices and millions more are added to this user base every year. Android is also doing a very competitive business. However, now in the light of a report regarding iPhone, it has been revealed that half of the new iPhone devices that are purchased annually are simply replacements for the older iPhone devices.

In this tutorial I will show you how you can use your Dropbox account and remotely start your torrents to download. This procedure is quite easy to perform from any Apple iDevice and it’s quite similar from any of them but I will be covering all steps you need to perform from your iPhone. Also don’t forget to leave your computer powered on otherwise your downloads won’t start.

If you are a nooby or you are using an iPhone for the first time and you dont know how to setup an Email account then this tutorial is for you. Make sure you follow all steps I am suggesting below and you also make sure you know which email provider you want to use because iPhone supports Microsoft Exchenage, mobileme, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and many others.

Apple has been on a roller-coaster ride of success, fame and popularity for quite some time now. It has emerged as a truly international brand in recent times and has proved its mettle with the persistent dominance of iPhone, in the smartphone world, and iPad in the tablet market. RIM, on the other hand, is undergoing an exactly opposite transformation. Here’s a chart that well illustrates this.

If you wonder how you can update your iOS on iPhone or iPad over the air method this tutorial may give you the answers. Thanks to the Apple iCloud, from now on you can switch from one version to the next over the air much faster than using conventional way over iTunes. You can easily know when new updates are available for your iOS by seeing a red notification badge next to your Settings app or you may even get a popup notification window with warning message. However you can always check it by yourself and I will show you how.

The round of rumors about the next-generation iPhone from Apple apparently has no signs of subsiding. At least until the device is actually released by the company. A recent report by iMore suggests that the next-generation iPhone will arrive some time in October this year, nearly a year after iPhone 4S launch. iMore also reports that the screen-size of the device will be 3.5-inch and that it will feature 4G LTE.

QR code which is acronym for Quick Response is a two dimensional bar code that you probably notice on a lot of websites, newspapers, magazines or products in your supermarket. More recently, the system has become popular outside of the industry due to its fast readability and large storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. By using your iPhone camera you can quickly and easy scan those codes and see product information’s, lunch a web site, send SMS message, etc… In this tutorial I will show you how to read QR codes with your iPhone with a small app that you need to install on your phone.

If you are a person who forget things very often e.g. to buy something in grocery shop, pickup kids from school, meet with friends then you need a good reminder and iPhone. Apple has introduced a new location based reminder in their iOS 5 for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s. This type of reminder let your configure alerts based on time, date or location. In this tutorial I will show you how to set up location based reminder on your iPhone with iOS 5 and never again forget important staff you need to do.

Keeping an iDevice clean is one of the most important details for most Apple users. Cleaning an iPhone is by no means a complicated procedure, but it is important to do it slowly and with right tools. In this tutorial I will show you how you should be clean your iPhone and which materials/tools you should be using because you don’t want to make your iPhone useless only because you used some liquids that ruined your phone.

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